Fall 2011 TCJ Student Edition

TCJ Student is an annual publication of Tribal College Journal. Both the journal and this student issue are published by the American Indian Higher Education Consortium, an organization of the 37 tribally controlled colleges and universities in the United States and Canada.

Student Edition editor: Mariana Kiona Harvey is a member of the Yakama
Nation and grew up in Seattle, WA. She began interning with Tribal College
Journal while attending Fort Lewis College in 2008, where she completed
her Bachelor’s Degree in American Indian Studies. She returned to TCJ to
work on special projects. She is passionate about singing, cooking, and
creating positive impacts on the community around her.

ON THE COVER: Crystal Worl is a junior in Studio Arts at the Institute
of American Indian Arts (IAIA, Santa Fe, N.M.) and is the 2011-2012
IAIA Ambassador. “Lingit Athabascan áyá xat. I am Tlingit Athabascan
from Juneau and Fairbanks, AK. I am a Raven from the Sockeye Salmon
Clan. I am also a Child of the Thunderbird Clan,” she says. She created
this painting, “I am a Raven,” because she wanted to remind those who left
home that they come from a special place: “This painting reflects my relationship
to our land and our stories. It is most important, that through our
paths in life, we always return home,” she says. “Haa ani is the relationship
between the Tlingit people and the land. Haa ani is a spiritual connection.
No matter where I travel or go to school, I always remember where I come
from and know that I will return home soon.”

BABY RAVEN SERIES. This 2010 acrylic painting by IAIA's Crystal Worl (Tlingit Athabascan) is titled "Baby Raven Plays with the Stars." "In my dream, I had met my baby sister, Raven. She was clever, fast, and laughing a lot," says the artist. "It seemed every time I tried to look at her, she would be laughing at something she had knocked over or broke. She would appear in my arms in a second, then the next, be behind me or in front of me. My baby sister was named after the creator and trickster Raven. In Tlingit oratory, Raven steals the Sun, the Moon, and the Stars, and releases them into the sky. In this image my baby sister embodies Raven stealing and playing with the Stars. This painting is a reflection of that story in perspective of my baby sister."

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